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Having just spent two weeks in China this past summer meeting with government leaders, academia and others I can confirm that China is indeed investing heavily in new healthcare infrastructure via a number of initiatives. A recent initiative involves a partnership between a leading Chinese academic health center and hospital network, Peking University Health Science Center, and Duke University Medical School to develop plans for integrating healthcare delivery and providing care for greater numbers of Chinese people.

The International Disease Management Alliance [IDMA], a US based not-for-profit association with Board members and delegates in 21 countries is also partnering with Valurise Health Solutions of Shanghai [http://www.sys-con.com/read/432695.htm] to facilitate the enhancement of how chronic disease is addressed in China. Valurise has also partnered with three important Chinese healthcare organizations and IDMA to pilot a disease management study of 50,000 patients in Shanghai and is also testing a community clinic model of chronic disease management and prevention.

Valurise has also organized a delegation of five leading Chinese healthcare officials to join the IDMA Chronic Disease Trade Mission to South America in November, 2007. This 13-day mission will allow an IDMA delegation from five countries to exchange experiences in chronic disease management with senior health officials in Brazil, Chile and Argentina. The Asian Pacific interest in disease management will also expanded via an IDMA co-hosted chronic disease conference in Australia in April, 2008 [http://www.terrapinn.com/2008/cdm/] and IDMA’s Executive Director will be keynoting at a major chronic disease conference in Taiwan in early December, 2006. A chronic disease conference in China is being planned for the fall of 2008.

IDMA expects that these kinds of innovations in China and other countries around the world will contribute a great deal to the understanding of how to better prevent and manage chronic disease. Importantly these different models of disease management will allow the DM community to expand its knowledge beyond the commercial call-center centric model of disease management that has dominated the US DM market for the past decade.

To keep up-to-date on chronic disease management and wellness initiatives around the globe, IDMA provides a weekly e-Newsletter that is free to subscribers. To subscribe go to: http://www.dmalliance.org/signup.php?PHPSESSID=f84d08874a3030df67ca88c38a022919.
The September 12th report is available at: http://www.magnetmail.net/Actions/email_web_version.cfm?publish=newsletter&user_id=IDMA&message_id=362925

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